--- title: People Are Rescuing Pets From Hurricane Harvey Flooding description: Residents and rescuers are banding together to save the animals left stranded by Hurricane Harvey's epic flood levels in Houston. canonical: https://time.com/4920281/hurricane-harvey-pets/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-29T20:11:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:54.390Z og:title: People Are Rescuing Pets From Hurricane Harvey Flooding og:description: Houston residents and rescuers are banding together to bring safety to pets og:url: https://time.com/4920281/hurricane-harvey-pets/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3b8d371ec234193/6988dbaecf40a8302bc492b5/houston-harvey-dam-levee-overflow.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3126 og:image:height: 1758 og:image:alt: APTOPIX Harvey og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Are Rescuing Pets From Hurricane Harvey Flooding twitter:description: Houston residents and rescuers are banding together to bring safety to pets twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3b8d371ec234193/6988dbaecf40a8302bc492b5/houston-harvey-dam-levee-overflow.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Heart-Wrenching Videos Show People Rescuing Pets From Hurricane Harvey Flooding > Sponsored content. 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Owners and rescuers are working together after [Hurricane Harvey](http://time.com/money/4920070/hurricane-harvey-where-the-money-goes-when-you-donate-to-the-american-red-cross/) hit Houston over the weekend, leaving the city waterlogged and roadways flooded, to shuttle animals stranded by the storm to dry shelter alongside their human counterparts. The hurricane has so far forced tens of thousands of residents to evacuate — plus the animals they bring along with them. As the most powerful storm to make landfall on the U.S. mainland in more than a decade, Harvey has left hundreds of thousands without power and is estimated to cost [tens of billions of dollars](https://www.wsj.com/articles/hurricane-harvey-will-cost-tens-of-billions-of-dollars-1503955714) to the municipality. As for the pets, rescuers and animal lovers alike are banding together to help bring them to safety. Some [animal shelters](https://www.facebook.com/austinpetsalive/posts/10155758324989066) and convention centers designated as hurricane relief areas are providing animal-friendly areas, too. “Everybody has pets. They’re our fur babies,” Houston resident Adam Brackman [told ABC News](http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/stranded-pets-rescued-amid-hurricane-harvey-flooding-southeast/story?id=49465792) as he assisted in saving residents and their six pets from their attic. “Everyone I talked to wants to hold on to them.” Watch above for the heart-wrenching photos and video of pets and their owners finding a way to escape the floodwaters. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4920281/hurricane-harvey-pets/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4920281/hurricane-harvey-pets/"},"headline":"Heart-Wrenching Videos Show People Rescuing Pets From Hurricane Harvey Flooding","datePublished":"2017-08-29T20:11:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:54.390Z","description":"Residents and rescuers are banding together to save the animals left stranded by Hurricane Harvey's epic flood levels in Houston.","url":"https://time.com/4920281/hurricane-harvey-pets/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Houston","hurricane harvey"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3b8d371ec234193/6988dbaecf40a8302bc492b5/houston-harvey-dam-levee-overflow.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3b8d371ec234193/6988dbaecf40a8302bc492b5/houston-harvey-dam-levee-overflow.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"APTOPIX Harvey","caption":"APTOPIX Harvey","creditText":"Charlie Riedel—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4920281/hurricane-harvey-pets/","name":"Heart-Wrenching Videos Show People Rescuing Pets From Hurricane Harvey Flooding"}}]}] ```